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How to get coronavirus vaccines and what applies to children and students. How to get vaccinated in Greece – What is the cold chain?
How will the vaccines for coronavirus and what applies to children. How to get vaccinated in Greece
The LSE Professor of Health Policy, Elias Mosialos, answers very important questions about children and the coronavirus vaccine at a time when the entire planet is entering a phase of colossal health mobilization with the first UK to start vaccination on Monday
Vaccines that have been approved, have gone through all phases, and are very effective Pfizer BioNTech and her Modern which are effectively more than 90%.
What about the vaccine in other countries?
Children will not be included in the groups. which will have priority to make use of coronavirus vaccine to all countries.
In the UK, children will not yet receive the coronavirus vaccine unless they belong to a vulnerable group.
Vaccinations are mandatory for students
Let us emphasize here that we are not talking about the coronavirus vaccine but in general about the vaccines that are manufactured in Greece. how are they required to all students. In fact, the Council of State recently ratified the decision of the Municipality to remove an infant from a kindergarten because his parents had not vaccinated him.
Coronavirus and children
As underlined Elijah Mosialos The data suggests that children and young people are at extremely lower risk of coronavirus disease, a serious illness compared to adults.
Infant mortality from coronavirus
Mortality from Covid-19 in children under 10 years of age is close to zero. For example, in Spain, until November 24, the mortality rates of children aged 0 to 9 years were 0.01%, those of 10 to 19 years were 0.02%, while the corresponding rates were 60 to 69 years were 5%.
Children transmit the coronavirus
But studies have also shown that children, although they can transmit the disease asymptomatically or with very mild symptoms, do transmit the disease. That is why it is very important that older people get vaccinated.
As far as we know, children will not be in priority groups for vaccination in all countries, mainly for three reasons
Insufficient amounts of vaccines
The guidelines issued by the countries focus on older people and generally adults over 50 and vulnerable groups.
Since in the first period of 2021, we will not have enough doses of the vaccine for everyone, young children (0-10) according to the extremely low risk, will not be vaccinated immediately.
Extremely small effects in this age group
Studies show that children, especially those under the age of 10, are less likely to develop Covid-19 disease.
Insufficient data from clinical trials initially for older children (10-17)
Clinical trials on the efficacy and safety of vaccines in children began in October, when the Pfizer vaccine was licensed and the clinical trial was extended to a small number of children 12 to 17 years of age.
The studies, of course, continue. Moderna is also licensed to extend clinical trials to 3,000 children between the ages of 12 and 17. By the end of 2021 we will probably have more vaccines and we will also have data from clinical trials in children ages 10 to 17
According to UK guidelines, children will not yet receive the vaccine.
• unless they belong to vulnerable groups
• Unless they live with people who belong to vulnerable groups.
Children’s mental health
You often hear me refer to the mental health of children. Children as an age group are less affected by the new coronavirus, but they have a different burden:
They experience the pandemic in the absence of the school environment and through an unprecedented situation. socializing with peers or relatives belonging to vulnerable groups.
That is why, as I said, it is very important that adults get vaccinated: not only to protect themselves from contracting the virus from our children, but also to give them the opportunity to return to their educational and sports activities. your companies and friends.
We remind you that Professor Mosialos is an expert in these topics I had stressed a few days before due to the pandemic as
“Let me explain a few things about the vaccine development process. To assure our fellow Greeks, who will want to get vaccinated, how this process was done.
It used to take 2 to 5 or 6 years for a vaccine to come out. This time, however, there was a lot of capital, there was a lot of investment. Research and development is 90% funded by governments. That was not the case in the past. “
When does the vaccine arrive in Greece?
Based on what we know so far and all the data, the vaccine will be in our country in January where can vaccination to become a reality there will be activation of a large part of the state mechanism as well as the health system.
What about cooling? At -70 degrees Celsius
We remind you that the issue of vaccine cooling is crucial and is a major challenge for scientists, as well as for the centralized management of their distribution!
Greece acquired 14 refrigerators that play a key role in refrigeration and distribution – vaccination chain
The refrigerators are the size of ice cream condominiums on the kiosks with the only difference that each of these refrigerators can freeze your product to -70 degrees Celsius.
In each refrigerator there will be boxes in each of which will fit 975 doses of vaccine.
Special technology will control the maintenance of the refrigeration at -70 degrees and the smooth operation of the refrigerators.
How will the population be convinced of the vaccine?
We know that in our country and in the world there is a portion of people who belong to the group of vaccinators in general. Aside from the dark freak, there will be enough people who will have doubts to get vaccinated right away.
Vaccine reluctance, coupled with false news circulating by vaccinators, could hamper herd immunity in many countries.
The teacher Ghani “The question of gaining population and getting people to get vaccinated could mean moving to herd immunity at a slower time.”
The vaccine in terms of its protection
Counting backwards, more and more publications clarifying the problems of vaccines are coming to light.
THE Achilles Gravanis, The professor of Pharmacology, speaking at the Open, highlighted that there will be immunity of the herd if the vaccine is administered to 55% of the population
We have vaccines and first antivirals. The vaccines will probably be here in mid-January. Monoclonal antibodies will be in Greece by the end of the year from two companies. “Doctors will have more tools next year,” he noted.
The next summer will be different because of the vaccine and the drugs, “he said, explaining that the monoclonal antibodies It is expected to be approved by the European Medicines Agency to come to Greece. “Today we have specialized antiviral drugs against the coronavirus,” he said.
Regarding the vaccines, Mr. Gravanis stressed that they are new technology, much cleaner than previous vaccines, less toxic than other vaccines and so far they have been tested in 50,000 volunteers.
Meanwhile, a ten-year-old boy is being treated in stable condition at the pediatric clinic of the Rio University Hospital. with symptoms where refer to Kawasaki syndrome, which seems to have something to do with the coronavirus infection.
It is recalled that coronavirus infection has been linked to a multi-system inflammatory disease resembling Kawasaki syndrome since last spring, with cases occurring both in Europe and the United States.
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